"Huckleberry Finn" is first published, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded, the first transcontinental flight ends, Playboy debuts, and "Avatar" premieres in theaters, all on this day.
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1830: Poet Emily Dickinson, whose work would mostly go unpublished during her life but is today considered to be a major American poet, is born in Amherst, Mass.